For international professionals curious about who’s who in the vibrant Estonian film industry, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and its industry sidebar have launched a unique AI-powered tool: Creative Gate.
The platform brings the names of more than 200 Estonian professionals and companies-financiers, producers, public bodies, casting agencies, crew and more to users’ fingertips
The free-of-charge service, is aimed at facilitating co-production and filming opportunities in the smallest Baltic state, which housed shoots of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” Paramount+/Showtime’s series “The Agency” and Sundance feature “Bubble & Squeak.”
Project manager Egle Loor says the brain behind the on-line platform is Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival honcho Tiina Lokk who thought about new ways to re-boost Estonia’s film industry post-COVID. So far, the service offers information exclusively on Estonia, but it is poised to expand across the entire Baltic region and hopefully the Nordics. “We have invented Creative Gate, so why limit ourselves,”says Loor who feels the tool could further strengthen the natural cooperation between the Baltics and the Nordics.
To evaluate Creative Gate’s appeal to other partners, including potential co-financiers, a team from the Festival has attended a startup incubation program at the Baltics’ largest science park, Tehnopol, in eastern Estonia. “We’re fine-tuning our product to boost its efficiency, sustainability and creativity, and in Cannes, we will present it to international professionals,” said Loor.
